New York teacher stuns students with truly gravity-defying experiment - can YOU work out how she did it? READ MORE: Scientists prove that plunging regions exist around black holes By Nikki Main Science Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 22:29, 22 May 2024 | Updated: 22:45, 22 May 2024 e-mail 8 shares 12 View comments A teacher has amazed her students by defying the laws of gravity. Mrs.
Madden, from Mount Kisco, New York, performed a spell bounding experiment for her science class by flipping a jar of water upside down in a way that not a drop spilled out from the opening. While the feat appeared to be something of magic, it was possible using air pressure that flowed into the container and trapped the water inside. A teacher from Mount Kisco, New York taught her young students how water could defy gravity and stay in a jar, even after it was flipped upside down Students filmed Madden standing in front of the classroom and covering a jar of water with what seemed to be a thin piece of cardboard.
When she turned the jar over, an air bubble appeared at the top of the liquid and she slowly removed her hand, showing the cardboard wouldn't fall off. Madden told her students that by flipping the jar, it created air pressure which pushed upwards in all directions, causing a magnet-like effect between the cardboard and the water. The air pressure would hold the liquid in, she told her students as she removed the cardboard from the bottom.
When she turned the jar over, an air bubbl.